| The dialogue is often poignant and moving, but the play is never allowed to slip into sentimentalism. |
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| Through Mrs Swille, the novel hints at the weaknesses of a culture that has long been, and remains, rooted in sentimentalism and melodrama. |
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| The plot's got a great deal of emotional heft to it, but never descends into mindless sentimentalism. |
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| Marx detested romanticism, emotionalism, sentimentalism and humanitarianism of any kind. |
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| That sentimentalism still can be felt in the emotional landscape of America. |
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| The great cause why modern humor and modern sentimentalism repel us, is that they are unwarrantably familiar. |
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| Representing croppers who aspired to the middle class was essential to the sentimentalism of the documentary form. |
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| Kudos to federal judges Pollack and Baer for not bending to the victimology and sentimentalism of the times. |
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| Because Nelson focuses on style and its relations to feeling, she is able to avoid the double binds of sentimentalism in her own analysis. |
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| It is meant to act as a check on the problematic impulses of romance and sentimentalism. |
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| Many scholars of nineteenth-century sentimentalism have noted the relation between sentimentalism and the marketplace. |
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| But it does not extend infinitely, as false sentimentalism would have us believe. |
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| Mixing sentimentalism and human rights, however, remains just as potent a formula in the twenty-first century as the nineteenth. |
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| This vanishing reflects both the culture's increasing intolerance of sentimentalism and mainstream comics' marginalizing of women readers. |
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| The Waltons and their family-friendly, values-based sentimentalism led the charge for an entire brigade of sentimental sap. |
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| It may be too sweet for some, but this type of understated solidarity is the only kind of sentimentalism I can really bear. |
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| The anarchic comedy of these performers effectively tempers Baxter's tendency towards deferential sentimentalism. |
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| Before you turn the page, wondering why I've chosen such a dreadful piece of sugary sentimentalism for this week's painting, give Greuze's grieving girl a second glance. |
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| Emilie's electro-pop masterpiece, tinged with a streak of sentimentalism, won the previous unknown media coverage far beyond her wildest dreams. |
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| Either moral concepts spring from reason, in which case rationalism is correct, or from sentiment, in which case sentimentalism is correct. |
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| And it is this which he is often criticised for: a sort of all-purpose sentimentalism. |
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| The reason for this does not lie in any sort of vague sentimentalism or paternalistic good-heartedness. |
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| With him, the poetic dialectic moves away from romanticism and sentimentalism. |
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| Sarkis' journey to Armenia was deprived from banal nostalgic sentimentalism usually positioning the person in a passive role of a guided one. |
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| How can it remain identifiably women centred without being trivialized with stereotypes of sentimentalism? |
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| Taylor's funk-influenced style hearkens back to the days when Motown was pounding out hit after soulful hit, without relying on sentimentalism or retro-chic. |
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| The latter's sugary European sentimentalism wouldn't matter, but for his position as one of Ireland's three members on the Convention on the Future of Europe. |
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| Abdul was beloved for her ditzy demeanor and blatant sentimentalism on American Idol. |
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| His vision of the landscape was subjected to dreamy sentimentalism and romantic anecdote, rather than being acknowledged for its experimentalism and social content. |
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| I think we should be as maudlin as we like and embrace our sentimentalism. |
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| But on the subject of American slavery, film-makers have always had an enormous sea of sentimentalism and melodrama to cross before even considering the subject. |
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| Similarly, while those watching in 1940 saw a radical indictment, many modern critics have written Ford's film off as hollow, conservative sentimentalism. |
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| Furthermore, Crane's prose denies the consolations of sentimentalism, in which the less fortunate are cast as inferior objects of pity and condescension. |
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| Naturalist cinema is also a vague cinema in so much as it is incapable of dodging approximations as soon as it deals with issues which are not only related to sheer violence or the most rudimentary sentimentalism. |
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| This table is in the pure line of my sentimentalism. |
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| With sentimentalism, selfishness or love, a living person can maintain in activity the deceased person magnetic band by his tears, prayers or thoughts. |
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| This is a work which has managed to successfully condense a story with two sides: tragedy and hope into a half hour piece without lapsing into sentimentalism. |
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| The challenge for sentimentalism, by contrast, is to produce a theory of the sentiments on which they can be understood independently of the evaluative concepts that the theory uses them to analyze. |
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| It celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. |
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| Antigna, however, was delivering a social statement, recalling the artists of the 1848 generation, who, without excessive sentimentalism, portrayed a lucid vision of the political and social reality of their time. |
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| Studies will explore the influence of sentimentalism on early English fiction and the effect of a growing middle-class readership on the fictional worlds created by these novelists. |
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| As with Tchaikovsky's music, one must avoid all sentimentalism. |
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| The dialogues and banter are full of humour and irony, as we witness a clash between rationalism and sentimentalism in a radical opposition of ideas. |
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| Mary glossed Percy's political radicalism as a form of sentimentalism, arguing that his republicanism arose from sympathy for those who were suffering. |
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| Compared to such sentimentalism that dream of the million men rising up at the President's call between dayrise and dayfall appears like grim realism. |
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| The rest is a mishmash of superstition, pietism, a sugary sentimentalism, a streak of Puritanism, and a bleak authoritarianism borrowed from Victorian England. |
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| On the other hand, Oscar Wilde, Henry James, and Virginia Woolf complained of a lack of psychological depth, loose writing, and a vein of saccharine sentimentalism. |
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